Video: “Daito-ryu’s contorted techniques that seem to represent every possible way of twisting the human body!”

In truth, when first approached about publishing a technical volume on Daito-ryu, I had quite a few reservations…. Given the traditionally closed, secretive nature of Daito-ryu, I worried to what degree it would be appropriate for me to disclose the oral and inner teachings of the art with which I have been entrusted to those outside the school. On the other hand, given the growing proliferation of technical manuals, videos and the like, not to mention the unprecedented availability of all kinds of information made possible today by the Internet—much of it incorrect and of dubious origin, I might add — I decided that it would be in the best interest of Daito-ryu to publish a written and pictorial record of the most fundamental points of at least the first portion the school’s technical curriculum, so that these do not become lost to posterity…